Stefan Janecek wrote: > uh,uh. things start getting complicated, especially because i missed the > beginning of the thread. from what i can figure out, your configuration > is the following: > GOOFY > (192.168.1.1)eth0 eth1(192.168.2.1) > / \ > / \ > (192.168.1.2) MICKEY MINI (192.168.2.2) > > and on goofy your hosts file is > #file /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.domain > 192.168.1.1 GOOFY.ORION.DE GOOFY > 194.25.2.129 t-online.de t-online > 192.168.2.2 MINI.ORION.DE MINI > 192.168.1.2 MICKEY.ORION MICKEY > > first: DONT use real (internet) domain names if you ever want to connect > your system to the internet. this will save you a lot of troubles.
Ok. > - Can all machines ping each other by IP ?(that would mean IP-forwarding > works)? This would be the first issue, I guess. What exactly does IP forwarding help to do? Other helpful users pointed me to have a look at "bridging". Are both closely related? > - Who can ping whom by name? thats a matter of name resolution. i noticed > that you have > 192.168.2.2 MINI.ORION.DE MINI > but only > 192.168.1.2 MICKEY.ORION MICKEY > maybe thats the source for some of your problems. Can't really imagine this because MICKEY (win95) has these settings: Computername:MICKEY Workgroup:ORION This exactly pertubes me because W95 does only seem to support NT-domanes. Which entries would you suggest on the W95 mashine after changing "DE" to "HOME_NET"? > - How do the /etc/hosts files of the clients (mickey, mini) look like? > if you want them to ping each other by name you will have to do one > of the following: > + keep correct hosts files on every client. bad idea, esp. if you want > to attach more clients to your network. > + serve /etc/hosts by NIS. thats what i would do for a home network. > + install a DNS server on goofy for your domain. maybe too sophisticated > for just a few clients - except you want to learn how to run a DNS > server... The only mashines that cannot ping each other by IP are MICKEY<->MINI, hence the two out of the two different subnets. But this relates I guess to ipforwarding you mentioned - could you help me on this issue? > What i did not catch at all: why are you serving two clients by two NICS? > would make sense only for an exercise on 'how to configure ipforwarding' Rather no :^) I was just trying to spare a switch, actually nothing more. But thinking it again over, yes - it might help me to understand or more or less get a "feeling" of networks. Robert
